Shortbox Summary

Holy smokes, we did it! Sean from The Captioned Life makes his Shortbox Summary debut to discuss Captain America White, the last book in the Color Series from Jeph Loeb and Tim Sale. The series had an extremely unique wait between its debut issue and follow up, while also having a change in colorist. Not only that, but issue 0 released before the MCU had really become a thing and wasn't completed until after Avengers Age of Ultron had released in theaters. It's a strange book that deserves some dissection, and I couldn't have been happier to dive into it with Sean from This Captioned Life!

AS WE MARCH through the color series by Jeph Loeb and Tim Sale, we meet a friend!

Nick from None of My Friends Like Comics (@NoComicFriends on twitter), one of my favorite comic podcasts around, joined us to talk about Daredevil Yellow, an examination of Matt Murdock, the man without fear, in his earliest days as the costumed hero of Hell's Kitchen.

🚨Emergency Pod 🚨

We don't talk about modern comics a lot here, but there was a huge announcement today about Amazing Spider-man 26 that couldn't be ignored.

So I called up my buddies Carlos and Garrett and we talked about it. This is a spoiler-heavy podcast for a comic that comes out 5/31, so consider yourself warned.

The color series continues! Chad and Andy from The Last Comic Shop stop by to talk about Hulk: Gray, a fantastic retelling of the Hulk's origin by the amazing creative team of Jeph Loeb and Tim Sale (with Matt Hollingsworth on colors). In a conversation you don't want to miss, we all get really honest about the Hulk - why he works, why he doesn't, and where this story lands in the character's library.

Like Chad and Andy? Who doesn't!? Check out https://www.lastcomicshoppodcast.com to

Your friendly neighborhood Carlos returns to talk about Spider-man Blue, a retroactive look at Silver/Bronze Age era spider-man and how he meet the first love of his life, Gwen Stacy. Nobody knows Spider-man like Carlos so buckle up because this one goes places.

Things are going to change soon in Marvel comics, so let's take one last look at what things are changing from, shall we?

First up, Fabio helps us revisit Marvels, a groundbreaking series from 1994 by writer Kurt Busiek with art by Alex Ross. This beautiful book details the coming of the Marvel Age, the birth of heroes through all their highs and lows of the silver age from the perspective of photographer Phil Sheldon. We go through the first four issues, the prologue that was released after the fact, the epilogue released for the 25th anniversary, and we touch on Ruins, the parody from 1995 that tears down everything Marvels built up.

We take an excruciatingly detailed lens at media and how it shapes our reality from the point of view of the man sharing it with people. You won't want to miss this.

Also, we talk about Lisa Loeb. God I love 1994.

FABIO RETURNS just in time to walk us through Doom putting the Fantastic Four through the ringer! With a device that can reshape reality to his will, Doom is taking out the Four one by one in this classic, four-issue miniseries from Grant Morrison, Jae Lee, and colorist Jose Villarrubia (not to mention Letterers extraordinaire Richard Starkings and Wes Abbot). So put your time-shoes on and walk back to July 2001 with us as we relive the songs, the cinema, and the sport that was shaping the world this Limited Series dropped into.

Aaron returns to Shortbox Summary to talk about one of his favorite villains of all time - the one, the only, Dr. Doom! We check out the 2005 origin story called Books of Doom by Ed Brubaker and Pablo Raimondi (along with Mark Farmer, Drew Hennessy, Robin Riggs, Brian Reber, and VC’s Rus Wootow). A lot happens in these six issues that help paint the picture of the man we know as Doom. It's part Shakespearian, part terrifying, and all epic, culminating in Steve Nash winning his second straight NBA MVP award, so, buckle up, because things get wild.

We take another look at Batman in the mid 2000's and this time with indie comics creator Trevor Lenkiewicz! Trevor wanted to talk about Batman: Broken City, the story that immediately follows Batman Hush and you could get whiplash reading these two stories back to back. From Brian Azzarello and Eduardo Risso, colorist Patricia Mulvihiill, and letterer Clem Robins comes BATMAN BROKEN CITY.

Sean returns for the penultimate arc of Astonishing X-Men. Two of the biggest talents at Marvel are supported by an amazing team of letterers, colorists, and editors for a story that's... strictly fine? This is one of the most confusing arcs in this era of Marvel, because it is highly dependent upon you doing your homework and reading 50 issues of X-Men going back a few years... and if you didn't, that's ok! I did, and that's what I'm here for.

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